IV. Militarism, imperialism.
Guns go off themselves.
Struggle against war
resolution of Jaurès vs. Guesde
experience of workers in Russia.
Best war against war: revolution.

2

1. July days vs. January 9.

2. Political crisis
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October
April 22
Rasputin
famine.

3. Growth of movement and spread of slogans.

4. Discarded liquidationism and little groups abroad.

5. War of Austria and Serbia.

6. Imperialism and militarism.

7. War against war.

8. World situation and tasks of proletariat in Russia.

Notes

{1}
These plans reveal the content of the article “Revolution and War”,
which Lenin planned to write for No. 33 of the Party’s C.O., the newspaper
Sotsial-Demokrat. The plans were written in July 1914, after the
outbreak of war between Austria and Serbia.

Therevolutionary crisis coming to a head in Russia on the eve of the
war was most evident in July 1914, a period Lenin compared with January
1905, pointing to the growth of a massive revolutionary movement, led by
the illegal proletarian party, the growth of slogans providing ideological
unity for the Party’s propaganda and agitation. The revolutionary struggle
was conducted under the slogans for an eight-hour working day, confiscation
of landed estates and a democratic republic.

Theplans show that the powerful growth of the revolutionary movement
in Russia was seen by Lenin in the context of the inter national situation,
and that in his article “Revolution and War” he intended to deal with the
tasks facing the proletariat of Russia in connection with the world
situation.
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{2}Kievskaya Mysl (Kiev Thought)—a bourgeois-democratic daily
published in Kiev from 1906 to 1918. Until 1915, it had illustrated weekly
supplements; from 1917, it had morning and evening editions.
p. 335